Li Chaoren's case actually has nothing to say, a manslaughter, a good man was stabbed into the Yangzhou Xiang Army, his life was saved, but his life was over.

What Yang Huairen is more concerned about is the problems reflected in the details of Li Chaoren's story.

After Zhao Xu regained imperial power, under the instigation of a group of new parties, he couldn't wait to restore the new law of Shenzong in Yuanfeng, the green seedling law to rejuvenate agriculture, the exemption law to support the people, and the law to protect the armor and strengthen the army.

There is nothing wrong with these new laws, if they are purely theoretical. But in terms of actual results, it is not satisfactory.

Giving food to the poor and encouraging the reclamation of wasteland, so that the poor people have land to cultivate, they will have a source of livelihood, and it can indeed make the lives of some poor people better.

But different regions have different situations, and poor counties do this to improve people's livelihood and increase taxes, but what about rich places? To do so would be to destroy the original land management model.

In fact, this is also to improve the situation of local landlords enclosing land, and a large number of new landlords were born from the Northern Song Dynasty, so the new law has destroyed the interests of these local tyrants.

Let's just say that Li Chaoren's hometown Lijiazhuang, although it can't be said that they are strong and strong, but a local big family, naturally has their production and lifestyle for many years, and everyone is used to it, suddenly the imperial court came to change the decree, and the people naturally did not adapt.

What is odious is that the ancient information is not smooth, and it can be said that the emperor is far away from Tokyo City for 200 miles, and whether the local officials can implement it, and how to implement it has become a big problem.

Li Chaoren originally lived a good life, but because of an impulsive punch, his life was ruined, what should his family do? The emperor won't know about this kind of thing, and he won't care about it, and the bigwigs in the court are all alive and well, and they won't care about it.

Investigate the reason, or change the law to make trouble, the government is very strong in the local area, bullying the people of Pingtou, or a normal phenomenon, why are there bandits everywhere in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty? It was forced by the government.

If the good people are forced to become bandits, the government will have no choice, and the government will not be able to do this kind of thing, and the local army will not have to count on it, and of course they will go to the bandits in a decent way every year.

But this kind of bandit is also a show, and the purpose is not to cheat some money from the squire?

The good people who became thieves were originally trembling, but when they saw that the Xiang army was not even a showman, they became bold, and if there were two or three characters in the rivers and lakes taking the lead, it would be even more troublesome for the township.

Li Chaoren was originally sentenced to death, maybe before the autumn, this kid would be able to run out of the prison and become a bandit.

Later, Linzi County Zun changed the sentence to exile, and Yang Huairen also heard why, it wasn't that the patriarch of Lijiazhuang had a big face, didn't he say that he moved the county Zun when he went to the head twice?

There is no need to guess, either the head of the Li family did not send enough money and silver, or the conditions offered did not meet the heart of the county honor.

Why did you go to the third trip later and say that you moved the county? What Yang Huairen heard was that he left the family patriarch and brought a bucket of grain to the county office.

Bucket is just a measuring tool, not worth a few dollars, why did the county lord change his mind?

Let Yang Huairen guess it, that is, in desperation, the head of the family took the risk to break the county lord's method of collecting money.

The Qingmiao Law wants to go through the grain beaten by the people from the government, and the people don't dare to say it.

When the law change becomes a way for local officials to make money, do they still expect the new law to succeed?

The exemption law itself is also a good way to sympathize with the people, don't look at the land of the Great Song Dynasty is not as big as several other great dynasties, but the population is the largest in all dynasties, so the people serve less than any dynasty, and the court also manages the food and wages.

The birth of the law of exemption from labor is because labor is sufficient, and the people in many places have no labor to serve at all, so for the sake of national finance, they came up with such a method to let the people exchange money for service.

This is nothing, but the exemption law in disguise divides the people into sixth-class households, which makes it unfair, and the common people have not suffered from wealth but inequality since ancient times.

Some things are feasible in later generations, but not in ancient times, and the minds of ordinary people are not so enlightened, and they treat all the people as noble sentiments as scholars, isn't this stupid? What's more, the sentiment of the reader is also weird, I can't say.

The armor protection law is even more strange, the Northern Song Dynasty military weak, not a lack of soldiers, but the quality of the soldiers, the cause of this situation is also caused by the excessive power of the literati, and then the literati use their power to squeeze the warriors infinitely.

In fact, there were not only a lot of soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty, but also very redundant, so many Xiang troops to raise, did the literati think that if they wanted to play crowd tactics with the Khitans, they could drown the Liao State?

When bragging, it is natural to say that the Song people can play the Liao State with a mouthful of foam, but the real situation is that there is no tax to brag, and there are many people who brag, and there are few people who really spit at the Khitans.

What's more, what kind of bear is Xiang Jun, Yang Huairen has seen it personally, not to mention one or two million such soldiers, even one or two million is for nothing, and they are all given for nothing on the battlefield.

In the past, Yang Huairen knew that several changes in the Song Dynasty were unsuccessful, and they were all learned from the history of later generations, from the Qingli New Deal to the Yuanfeng reform, and now Shaosheng Shaoshu, whether it is Fan Zhongyan, Wang Anshi or Zhang Dan, they have not succeeded.

These people have good ideas, but unfortunately they don't have much execution, so the reforms they shouted have all become castles in the air.

Now that the new law has only been in force for two years, these drawbacks are not so obvious, but they are not without notice.

Those bigwigs in the court, Yang Huairen felt that with their skills, they shouldn't have seen it, as for why they didn't say it, there were many reasons.

On the one hand, the new law is their political proposition, they were degraded because of this, and they insisted on it when they were not assigned to any border Lingnan, and there was no reason why the emperor supported them now, but they gave up their own ideas because of the drawbacks.

On the other hand, in fact, the new law is not a product of collective wisdom, and the policies put forward by a few highest-level leaders of the new party are just the people under them who are waving their flags and shouting, and as for the content of the new law, they will not study it carefully.

In the end, the reason is a bit scary, because the implementation of the new law is really just a front, a weapon for them to take down those who disagree with the political disagreement.

They don't have such a long-term vision of whether the new law can improve the fortunes of the country, but it is what they mind most about using it as a weapon to cut down the old party.

It is actually terrible for literati to be ruthless, and it is actually more painful to kill people with soft knives. Martial artists kill people simply and directly, but literati kill people are not like this, slaughtering with a knife is not a pleasure, and punishing the heart and God is the highest state of torturing people.